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Languages: 🇷🇺🇬🇧🇮🇸🇫🇴🇩🇰🇸🇪🇬🇱🏴🇺🇲 (Navajo and Siberian Yupik) Interested in maths, Linux & NetBSD, bandy 🏑 Status Quo 🎸🎸🥁
Picture of an elder woman in rural Africa weaving baskets.
I just staumbled across ELDP, Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, "creating a repository of resources for linguistics, the social science, and language communities."
Lots to read here!
www.eldp.net
#endangered #languages #project #langsky
For the UI, I think I'll give Window Maker a spin. It was my favorite X11 window manager back when I spent more time in X11.
#OpenBSD #WindowMaker #PowerMacG4
A top-down shot of a small computer setup on a tan surface with some visible coffee stains. In the upper left, a silver mini-PC is partially visible, with a black USB stick plugged into its side. Below the mini-PC, a black USB to TTL serial adapter is connected to and powering a Raspberry Pi A+. The Raspberry Pi Zero W is connected to and driving a 2-relay module. The Raspberry Pis are running NetBSD, the mini-PC is running llumos/SmartOS, and the two, slightly visible APU devices are running FreeBSD.
This is part of my weekend fun. Coffee stains included.
The two Raspberry Pis are powered by NetBSD, the mini PC by illumos/SmartOS, and the two APU boards by FreeBSD.
#NetBSD #FreeBSD #illumos #SmartOS #IT #SysAdmin #HomeLab #RaspberryPI
Kai says hello to a wise friend who flys by.
Day 3: Bug (Chósh in Diné word)
“Aoo’ yá’át’ééh k’aalógii.”- “Yes hello butterfly.”
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#sketchbookapp #IndigeNovember #Navajo #skyart
The genetic history of the Orkney Islands tells a fascinating story filled with contrasts. In his latest blog post @thinkuhi.bsky.social Dr Andrew Jennings discusses the results of recent genetic studies in #Orkney
www.vikingislands.co.uk/p/a-genetic-...
While in the ancient city of Kathmandu, I had the rare privilege of meeting — and photographing — the Living Goddess of Patan, Samita Bajracharya. Just eight years old, yet regarded as the earthly embodiment of divine power, she resides within the sacred confines of the Kumari Ghar, the “god-house,” where her every gesture carries spiritual weight. Each day, behind the intricately carved windows of that centuries-old sanctuary, the Living Goddess performs her rituals — serene, untouchable, and radiant with the quiet gravity of something far beyond childhood. To look upon her is said to bring good fortune; to stand before her is to feel time itself pause.
Under normal circumstances, the reign of a Living Goddess ends with her first menstruation — the moment she sheds blood, she returns to mortal life, and the search for her successor begins. Some say even a single scratch can dissolve her divinity. Tradition warns it is unlucky to marry a former Kumari.
The selection of a new Living Goddess is an intricate tantric ritual. Chosen from poor Sakya families, girls aged four to seven must meet thirty-two marks of perfection — from the shape of their eyes and teeth to the tone of their voice and the alignment of their stars. Then comes the true test: in a darkened room strewn with buffalo heads and filled with masked dancers and terrifying sounds, the candidates face their fear. Only the child who remains serene — untouched by terror — is deemed the true embodiment of the goddess. Finally, like the Dalai Lama, she must recognize items once worn by her predecessor, proving her divine continuity.
The return to ordinary life is often the hardest chapter in a Kumari’s story. After years of worship and isolation, a former Living Goddess must learn to walk once more among mortals — no longer carried in ceremonial processions or served in silence. The world outside the Kumari Ghar can feel bewildering, even harsh.Tradition warns that any man who marries a former Kumari will die young, a superstition that lingers like a shadow over her future. Yet beneath the myth lies a more human truth — the challenge of reconciling divinity with normalcy. Having been treated as a goddess since childhood, obedience and humility do not come easily, nor does the prospect of being “ordinary.” For many, the fear is not of marrying a cursed woman, but of living with one who once ruled in silence, her every word — or absence of it — treated as sacred decree.
I had the rare privilege of meeting and photographing the Living Goddess of Patan, Samita Bajracharya. Only eight years old, she was revered as the earthly embodiment of divine power within the sacred Kumari Ghar — a presence so potent that even a glimpse of her is believed to bring good fortune.
28.10.2025 17:38 — 👍 460 🔁 43 💬 28 📌 2Listening to the one enya song that has a guitar solo
26.10.2025 17:02 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0Just an anecdote I heard on discord but some guy was saying that his Tahltan grandfather was apparently able to converse fairly fluently with some Navajo elders at a conference in Arizona.
28.10.2025 01:29 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0the current consensus based on genetics/linguistics is that that there were at least three pre-columbian settlements of the americas: one very ancient one ~13K years ago, one about ~5K years ago that brought in the na-dene speakers, and the inuit who spread only around ~1000 years ago
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Same
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Swastica seals from the Indus Valley (Harappan) civilization, 3700-4000 years old, source: wikipedia
Armenian petroglyphs, 7000-10000 years old.
sacred swastika motifs on a Navajo woven blanket.
Buddhist swastika from Asakusa Kannon Temple, Tokyo
Okay, I'm going to subthread in on this post, and hopefully that will help with the hierarchy of this massive thread.
Let's talk about swastikas! Before the rise of the nazis, they were for thousands of years used as religious/magic symbols around the world (& remain *carefully* used as such today)
Ein Mann am Ufer im Sand knieend, fasst sich mit einer Hand an die Stirn, mit der anderen stützt er sich im Ufersand. im Hintergrund Wellen aus denen noch der Kopf eines großen Fisches herausrakt mit geöffnetem Maul.
De Fisch is nu deep unnern in't Meer.
Jona is in den Buuk van den Fisch,
dree Daagen un dree Nachten lang.
"Gott, help mi!",
röppt Jona.
"Haal mi hier rut!"
Gott höört Jona.
He helpt hem.
De Fisch speiht Jona an Land.
Dat groote Bibel-Billerbook up Platt, Kijkbijbel
©2007 AG Plattdüütsch in de Kark
De Lüü, de nix to doon hebben, hebben't an drocksten.
DE: Die Menschen, die nichts zu tun haben, haben es am eiligsten.
#Spröökje #opPlatt #plattdüüts #plattdeutsch
Cool
13.10.2025 22:39 — 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
Paraguay Launches Archive to Preserve #Guaraní and #Jopará
languagemagazine.com/2025/10/20/p...
via @langmag.bsky.social
#indigenous #language #langsky
You forgot those utterly annoying cookies confirmations!
18.10.2025 11:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Burmese script: beautiful, but not sure if a language or knitting instructions. And the buggers don't even have a full stop...
သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်၏ ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက်အရာသည် လုပ်ယူဖန်တီးထားသော ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ဖြစ်သည်။ စိုက်ပျိုးမြေများနှင့် မြို့ပြနေရာများအဖြစ် ပြောင်းလဲခြင်းကဲ့သို့သော လုပ်ယူဖန်တီးထားသည့် ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်များကြောင့် သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ရှုခင်းများသည် အခြေခံကျကျ ပြောင်းလဲထားသည့် ရိုးရှင်းသော
Världens dyraste varmkorv⚡⚡⚡
17.10.2025 22:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Western 'Horn' in East Iceland
17.10.2025 22:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Frábært!
17.10.2025 22:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Vad är den fonologiska skillnaden mellan Lidingö-i och ljudet av ryskans "Ы"? #langbsky #language #phonology #langskeet
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Пока был в книжном, нашел новый завет в переводе на полесский диалект! Оцените тот самый отрывок из послания Коринфянам
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Happy birthday Robert Bringhurst. The poet, typographer & author, famous for translating works from Greek, Arabic, Navajo & Haida & authoring the seminal & mandatory Elements of Typographic Style, was born today in 1946.
#typography
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Minns ni att jag skrev om avsaknaden om den färöiska flaggan i personalrummet?
Den står i förrådet!!
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
Come learn Coptic! In partnership with the Religion Department, I developed a two-part introduction to Coptic via close study of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas. Come learn about ancient languages and sayings of Jesus!
Part 1: Starts Oct. 27 | Part 2: Jan. 5
www.religiondepartment.com/learning-cop...
